On May 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation notified Congress of a data breach affecting 237,000 current and former government employees. The compromised data pertained to TRANServe, a system for reimbursing commuting costs. So far, it is unclear who perpetrated this attack.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday.The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal purposes.Advertisement · Scroll to continueReport this adUSDOT notified Congress Friday in an email seen by Reuters that its initial investigation of the data breach has "isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, such as employee transit benefits processing."USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any transportation safety systems. It did not say who might be responsible for the hack.Advertisement · Scroll to continueThe department is investigating the breach and has frozen access to the transit benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said.The maximum benefit allowance is $280 per month for federal employee mass transit commuting costs. The breach impacted 114,000 current employees and 123,000 former employees.Federal employees and agencies have been target of hackers in the past.Two breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015 compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people, including 4.2 million current and federal employees along with fingerprint data of 5.6 million of those individuals.Advertisement · Scroll to continueReport this adSuspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies breached unclassified Justice Department networks and read emails at the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments. Nine federal agencies were breached, Reuters reported in 2021.

The department is investigating the breach and has frozen access to the transit benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said.The maximum benefit allowance is $280 per month for federal employee mass transit commuting costs. The breach impacted 114,000 current employees and 123,000 former employees.Federal employees and agencies have been target of hackers in the past.Two breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015 compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people, including 4.2 million current and federal employees along with fingerprint data of 5.6 million of those individuals.

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August saw continued fallout from the MOVEit attacks, as more companies and government agencies disclosed that they had been breached in this string of cyberattacks perpetrated by Clop, a Russian ransomware group.IBM was implicated as an attack vector for breaches on several state agencies, including the Colorado Department of Health & Financing, the Colorado Department of Higher Education, and the Missouri Department of Social Services. Stolen data included social security numbers, Medicare and Medicaid ID numbers, and sensitive health data on millions of Americans.

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